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  Mongolia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The 18th largest country in the world by area, Mongolia has very little arable land: much of its area is grassland, with mountains in the north and west and the Gobi Desert in the south.
The Manchu conquered Inner Mongolia in 1636 and Outer Mongolia in 1691.
Mongolia is a parliamentary country where the president has a symbolic role and the government is the executive power.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Mongolia   (1514 words)

  
 Foreign Policy Concept of Mongolia
Mongolia's foreign policy shall be based on its national interests, as defined in its Constitution: the country's specific external and internal situation constitutes the basis for determining its foreign policy objectives, principles and priorities.
Considerations of foreign relations shall be in the political, economic, scientific, technological, cultural and humanitarian fields of foreign policy.
Mongolia shall apply the principle of benefiting from world scientific and technological achievements to enrich the pool of national endowment and intellectual capacity which are congruous with the national human and natural resources, the level of social theory and thought as well as with the unique culture of its pastoral livestock economy.
www.indiana.edu /~mongsoc/mong/foreign.htm   (2028 words)

  
 Foreign relations of Mongolia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mongolia is seeking to join APEC and became a full participant in the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in July 1998.
Mongolia is expanding relations with Japan and South Korea.
Mongolia did not join the UN until 1961 because repeated threats to veto by the Republic of China, who considered Mongolia to be part of its territory (see China and the United Nations).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Mongolia   (815 words)

  
 Mongolia
In addition, because many foreign accounts are about the Mongol invasions and were written by the conquered, the Mongols often are described in unfavorable terms, as bloodthirsty barbarians who kept their subjects under a harsh yoke.
Mongolia and its people thus have had a significant and lasting impact on the historical development of major nations, such as China and Russia, and, periodically, they have influenced the entire Eurasian continent.
One of these groupings, the Yuezhi, was related linguistically to the ancient nomadic Scythian peoples--who inhabited the steppes north and northeast of the Black Sea and the region east of the Aral Sea--and was therefore Indo-European.
www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Mongolia.html   (9631 words)

  
 Mongolia (07/06)
Mongolia, which joined the World Trade Organization in 1997, is the only member of that organization to not be a participant in a regional trade organization.
Mongolia is seeking to join the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) and became a full participant in the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in July 1998.
Mongolia has contributed small numbers of troops to coalition operations in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003, gaining experience which enabled it to deploy armed peacekeepers to both UN and NATO peacekeeping missions in 2005.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2779.htm   (4493 words)

  
 Mongolia Information Center - inner mongolia
Mongolia is split in to 21 provinces (aimag), Ulaanbaatar (the capital) is a municipality with provincial status.
Many industrial mongolia map facilities were closed down with the start of capitalism map of mongolia gobi desert and the end of the Soviet Union, which supported the largely loss-making factories.
A massive ($11 billion) foreign adoption mongolia debt facts about mongolia to Russia was settled by the Mongolian government in 2004 with a $300 million payment; this reduced value was accepted due to Mongolian hardship and losses of human lives during the Soviet Era.
www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_M_-_O/Mongolia.html   (1055 words)

  
 Mongolia
Mongolia (Khalkha Mongolian: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked nation in central Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south.
The 18th largest country in the world, Mongolia has very little arable land: much of its area is grassland, with mountains in the north and west and the Gobi Desert in the south.
A massive ($11 billion) foreign debt to Russia was settled by the Mongolian government in 2004 with a $300 million payment; this reduced value was accepted due to Mongolian hardship and losses of human lives during the Soviet Era.
creekin.net /n124-mongolia.html   (964 words)

  
 Mongolia - Foreign Economic Relations and Comecon
The principal official mechanisms for bilateral foreign economic relations were the various joint intergovernmental commissions on economic, scientific, and technical cooperation, which were established by treaty in the 1960s, the 1970s, and the 1980s between Mongolia and the Soviet Union as well as other socialist nations.
Mongolia also had a Chamber of Commerce, the functions of which included establishing contacts between Mongolian and foreign trade and industrial organizations as well as organizing and participating in international trade exhibitions in Mongolia and abroad.
Mongolia also participated in Comecon commissions for agriculture, coal industry, electric power, food industry, geology, light industry, nonferrous metallurgy, and transportation, and it cooperated in Comecon efforts in construction, currency-finance, foreign trade, health care, standardization, statistics, telecommunications, and postal communications.
countrystudies.us /mongolia/57.htm   (551 words)

  
 Mongolia - Gurupedia
Mongolia (Khalkha Mongolian: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked country in
In the 13th century, Mongolia was part of the Mongol Empire.
Mongolia's economy is centered on oil, coal, and copper, with smaller industries in
www.gurupedia.com /m/mo/mongolia_(country).htm   (449 words)

  
 The EU's relations with Mongolia - Country Strategy Paper 2002-2006
The Mongolia CSP was adopted by the Commission on 27 December 2001 and provides the strategic framework within which European Community (EC) assistance will be provided for the period 2002-2006.
Mongolia is fully implementing the Trade and Cooperation Agreement signed with the EC.
The main challenges for the coming years faced by Mongolia are to overcome the problems of the agriculture and livestock sectors (following in particular the very hard winters in the last years), to tackle the issue of poverty reduction and to fight against corruption.
ec.europa.eu /comm/external_relations/mongolia/csp/index.htm   (396 words)

  
 The EU's relations with Mongolia - Overview
During the 1990s, Mongolia made progress in laying the institutional and policy foundations for a market oriented economy, including price and trade liberalization, launching large-scale privatization (retail sector and livestock herding), curtailing budget transfers and lending to state enterprises, and setting-up a commercial banking system.
The indicative budget allocation for assistance to Mongolia is 9 million EUR in total for the period 2004-2006.
Geography: Mongolia is a landlocked country, located between the Russian Federation in the North and the PR China in the South.
ec.europa.eu /comm/external_relations/mongolia/intro/index.htm   (2037 words)

  
 Mongolia History & Mongolia Culture | iExplore.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mongolia is undergoing dramatic change with the demise of a traditional nomadic lifestyle that, a generation ago, was lived by a third of the population.
Mongolia’s foreign relations are necessarily dominated by its giant neighbors, China and Russia, and based on bilateral friendship treaties.
There are large deposits of coal which meet most of Mongolia’s energy requirements, as well as copper, fluorspar, tungsten, tin, gold, lead and molybdenum, a rare metal of which Mongolia is one of the world’s largest producers.
www.iexplore.com /dmap/Mongolia/History   (1140 words)

  
 TDS; Passports, Visas, Travel Documents
Due to Mongolia's landlocked position between the new independent states (NIS) of the former Soviet Union and China, it was essential to continue and improve relations with these countries.
Mongolia seeks closer relations with countries in Europe and hopes to receive most-favored-nation status from the European Union (EU).
Mongolia was granted permanent NTR status and GSP eligibility in June 1999.
www.traveldocs.com /mn/foreign.htm   (1160 words)

  
 [19 Apr 2000]: PRESS CONFERENCE BY MINISTER FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS OF MONGOLIA
Mongolia was facing its worst natural disaster ever, the Minister for Foreign Relations of Mongolia, Nyam-Osoryn Tuya, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
Quoting the same group, the correspondent said that there were 3,000 Christians in Mongolia; for about three years they were allowed to practice their faith; but then the Government had stopped their activities.
Figures indicated that almost 18 per cent of expenditures related to export by landlocked developing countries covered the cost of transportation and insurance, she continued.
www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/2000/20000419.mongoliapc.doc.html   (1211 words)

  
 Russia Reestablishing Relations with Mongolia [Free Republic]
Mongolia’s relations with Russia extend back to 1924, when Soviet-backed Mongolian communists proclaimed a communist state.
Mongolia’s military is tiny, and its economy is struggling, but its geography is invaluable.
Yet, Mongolia’s relations with China have improved significantly since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a0f66e67a52.htm   (815 words)

  
 Jurisdiction -- U.S.Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
The geographic scope of the subcommittee extends from China and Mongolia to Burma, inclusive of the mainland of Asia, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand, Oceania, and the South Pacific Islands.
The subcommittee considers all matters relating to Africa, with the exception of countries bordering on the Mediterranean Sea from Egypt to Morocco, which are under the purview of the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs.
Problems which are of concern to the subcommittee include relations between the American nations, U.S.-Canadian affairs, boundary matters, the implementation of various treaties and conventions, economic relations and security matters affecting the Western Hemisphere, and the Organization of American States.
foreign.senate.gov /jurisdiction.html   (1056 words)

  
 Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis Khan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 1906, the Manchu emperor extended the policy of sinofication from Inner Mongolia to Outer Mongolia.
This meant that Mongolia had the right to determine its internal affairs but not its foreign affairs, including international trade relations.
The Bogd Khan regained the throne and Mongolia became a limited monarchy, with the People's Government in charge of state affairs and the Bogd Khan a symbolic state figure and religious leader.
www.museum.upenn.edu /Mongolia/section2c.shtml   (489 words)

  
 Human rights in Mongolia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In addition, Mongolia argues that the notion of human rights should include economic standards of living and measures of health and economic prosperity.
Many contentious events have been seen as abuses by groups or nations outside Mongolia, while the Mongolian government tends to view them as necessary for public safety and social stability.
Other serious and persistent human rights problems include political murder and abuse of Democratic Party leaders and opposition politicians, land confiscations, arbitrary arrest and detention, torture, bonded and forced child labor, trafficking in women and children, discrimination and domestic violence against women, and abuse of children.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_rights_in_Mongolia   (994 words)

  
 Mongolia Web News - E-archive project to be implemented in Mongolia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A web-log or blog that is focused on anything related to Mongolia, from the first snowflakes to the dissapearing mausoleum.
They were informed on the current conditions of the ministry’s archive and proposed to implement an “E-Archive” project in the central archive of the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with non-refundable aid of 300 thousand USD from the Government of Korea.
By doing so, keeping, protection, and exploitation of the documents and unique valuable historic facts related to the foreign relations of Mongolia will be improved and open up possibility to provide the public with effective services.
www.mongolia-web.com /content/view/585/2   (166 words)

  
 U.S. Government Bookstore: Browse by Subject: Foreign Relations of the United States
Part of a subseries of volumes of the Foreign Relations series that documents the most important issues in the foreign policy of the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson for the years 1964-1968.
Part of a subseries of the Foreign Relations series that documents the most important issues in the foreign policy of the Lyndon B. Johnson administration for 1964-1968.
Includes documentation illuminating the foreign policymaking process of the United States Government, with emphasis on the highest level at which policy on a particular subject was determined.
bookstore.gpo.gov /subjects/sb-210.jsp   (4700 words)

  
 Owen Lattimore Papers (Library of Congress)
The collection relates to both private and professional matters and is arranged in seven series, the largest of which--constituting one-third of the collection--is General Correspondence.
Related Material Researchers may wish to consult collections of Lattimore's papers preserved at other depositories, including the archives of Johns Hopkins University, University of Leeds, and Dartmouth College.
Council on Foreign Relations Study group on Far Eastern affairs, meeting minutes, 1946-1947 Territorial group, meeting minutes and reports, 1940-1943 Gobi expedition, 1979 Helsinki, Finland, notes on trip, n.d.
www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/lattimore.html   (3759 words)

  
 Mongolia - Tourism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In the late 1980s, tourism played a minor role in Mongolia's foreign economic relations.
Mongolia has natural, historical, and cultural sites of interest to foreign tourists, such as the Nemegt Valley's "dinosaur graveyard," the ancient city of Karakorum, and the medieval Erdene-Dzuu monastery.
The Foreign Tourist Office, Juulchin, which was part of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Supply in 1989, handled all foreign tourists.
countrystudies.us /mongolia/58.htm   (80 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Russian and Soviet policy in Manchuria and Outer Mongolia, 1911-1931.
Russian and Soviet policy in Manchuria and Outer Mongolia, 1911-1931.
Subjects: Mongolia -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Manchuria (China) -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/oclc/255475   (85 words)

  
 Mongolia
Mongolia's birth rate is estimated at 21.4 births/1000 people (2004).
About two-thirds of the total population is under age 30, 29.7% of whom are under 14.
The 2005 Mongolia Investment Climate Statement is available at (www.state.gov/e/eb), and the Mongolia Country Commercial Guide can be found at (http://www.export.gov/market_research/index.asp).
www.infoplease.com /country/profiles/mongolia.html   (3618 words)

  
 Foreign Affairs - Foreign Affairs Advertising - Sponsored Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sandwiched between two regional leviathans, Mongolia has struggled against isolation and domination for much of its rich history.
Today, the country has left its Soviet shackles far behind and carved out a promising future for itself through bold economic reforms and the adoption of a "third neighbour" policy towards the United States.
As a mining boom takes hold of Mongolia, Strategic Media explores the nation's economic growth and its relations with the United States as it works towards a U.S. free trade pact.
www.foreignaffairs.org /sponsored_sections/country_focus/mongolia   (172 words)

  
 SANDNet Weekly Update, January 10, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
PRC Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao denied reports that the PRC had provided the Lashkar-e-Toiba militant group with anti-aircraft guns.
Vajpayee stated that India would focus on a "lasting solution" to Kashmir and not just a peace treaty, that the Kashmir issue had elements that were both internal and external to India, and that Jammu and Kashmir will not be divided along communal lines.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar stated that Chief Executive Pervez Musharraf was ready to visit India.
www.nautilus.org /VietnamFOIA/archives/sand/Updates2001/V2N2.html   (2282 words)

  
 Development Mongolia
J.Enkhsaikhan, Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations, in the plenary of the Fifth Meeting of Governmental Experts from Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Representatives of Donor Countries and Financial and Development Institutions, New York, 30 July, 2001
Statement by Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mongolia at the III Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Seattle, December 1999
Statement by Minister for External Relations of Mongolia, at the 55th Session of the ESCAP in Bangkok, April 27,1999
www.un.int /mongolia/develpmt.htm   (344 words)

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